Whiskey Ginger - Duncan Trussell - #056

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Duncan Trussell Duncan thank you for coming my pleasure thanks for having me we're drinking a little bit of Eagle rare for those that need to know dunk and I are both having it it's really good straight up which is what we talked about off air is that a wise Irishman once told me there are no rules to how you drink whiskey some people like it on the rocks some people like it straight up you like it up I like it well you know I don't really like just like whiskey I don't have a preference one way I do like it I like whiskey Ginger's I like just whiskey in general I don't get all the time though I haven't had whiskey in probably four months or something so this is really special oh yeah wait why four months consciously you were like I oh yeah what happened no was it was sort of conscious I don't know why it's a weird I don't know why we have not had whiskey at the house it's maybe it's because the baby something about drinking whiskey the baby or something hmm but I think that's two babies drink whiskey well the baby loves whiskey like baby got ahold of the whiskey no but the baby's doing that reincarnated like in the in Tibetan Buddhism it's called the tool kou system where they take children and they recognize stuff from past lives and they'll like pick that and that's how they know who like the next Dalai Lama's gonna be who is the next Dalai Lama do we know well they don't know yet cuz you have to die could it be your kid no way because though technically the way that would work is no because the idea is the soul of the awakened being when the body drops chooses another who then another portal on the Lord Oertel yeah and then like there's all these signs and in the signs lead it's very much like the three wise men in the Bible it leads people to the child and then they bring the possessions that used to belong to the former incarnation and then but they mix it in with all this other stuff and the baby like picks the glasses and picks the thing and that confirms it's the baby and then they take the baby it's a huge honor for the parents but it's also very controversial and the Dalai Lama has I think kind of hinted that maybe that system might be on the way out actually why I like that system well yeah but then you know there's the the crew decided to I think it's cool but the criticism of is like you mean it's some kind of like theocracy where the priests essentially steal a child and yeah in like condition the child said yeah that yeah that's the yeah there has to be a sacrificial lamb right someone has to be the thing I love your attitude about I mean I think it's the way it's been explained to me is at least in those times in Tibet it was just a huge honor essentially like someone coming to you and saying that you're royalty or that you would have a child and they're like oh your child is a royalty even though they anoint you yeah you're like um it's as if like you have a child in your kid becomes a Kardashian like you get anointed in American culture you become holier than thou that's right well yeah we can only dream do you believe in reincarnation yeah you do yeah what form see like my mother believed there's a lot of different versions like my mom believes you come back as not another human being but another another like another form of an animal she loves animal reincarnation she believes that like I can't a dog whatever she doesn't believe you come back is another person well the I think like that now this is that stuff it starts with this life so yeah and we kind of talked about for a second but it's sort of like you can look at your life and see that in the continuum of just your life you've you've basically reincarnated well if you look at you now versus when you're a baby you have reincarnated it's two completely different forms right and then also if you look at the phases of your life you realize like oh [ __ ] it's some like far back it might as well have been a different life it's a different house it's like you know and the older you get the more you realize just how true that is and yet there seems to be some kind of thread running through at all which is the identity or the a sense of self or being something so so that my the way I've been taught about reincarnation is that it's more like a momentum thing it's like anything that has momentum in the universe that momentum in some way that energy keeps going but but it gets transferred into other things yes I think that's just a natural that's that's a super scientific approach but your energy literally is going to go to somewhere else one day I was high [ __ ] I was thinking my heart ism is like this little machine that beats using its own electrical energy created by itself so it's completely self-sustaining and at some point it just stops the Machine turns off yeah so the energy goes to a thing right it has to be displaced but it's wild to think that the little machine just works on its own on its own just because on its a [ __ ] crazy [ __ ] crazy and then all like when you start doing that and now it says how many things are automatic yeah that they require zero input from you and then you take that you know right you extrapolate that's like you know the next time you go buy anything like just watch how you buy something and it's crazy cuz your body just goes into a completely automatic series of movements in the most fluid way and you really don't think about it you pull out your card you swipe the card you look at the person you say thank you in some fake-ass way or maybe you're serious maybe for a second you like catch not like thanks yeah and then you leave and then but you really feel it's mostly just completely automatic right and then none of that's none of that exchange really has any connection to the person that's given it to you and I guess the parallel could be like when you first started exchanging gifts or for started exchanging goods of her services there was a literal connection with the person that gave you the thing they either made it or they're exchanging something for you because it's worth something to you in that in this case everyone were purchasing things from or obtaining things from has zero connection to the thing they're giving you almost always like a car salesman doesn't give a [ __ ] about Honda's he just has a job he didn't make the Honda no yeah he doesn't care the place that we come from is a place where we used to make the thing to trade or sell the thing to get things in return yeah that's why I like human connection I think is severed a little bit because when people complain customer service is dead it's like it's not that it's dead it's just that's not a part of our world anymore we did but that's unfortunately it's just a truth it's like right we don't not that we don't need it it's just that's not it's not a high functioning way for us to operate any we we no longer yeah can create all of our own stuff and use that for exchange any long that's right yeah it's it's true it's in this [ __ ] that we're like even the manufacturers of the things that you quite often the manufacturing process has so many little parts yeah there's no one even invested in the final product it's just the thing that's gotten woven together yeah and no one will even some people don't even know what they're [ __ ] making that's the create death there was a great documentary on Netflix called um American companies I think it was called American company and it was basically about the the the re the rebirth of the GM factory by this Chinese company that bought it and essentially just the idea that most of these people are just assigned one little job and they do it at two extreme by the way I mean the Chinese work absurd hours when they make fun of the Americans for only working at hour days you know and wanting a lunch and should they just mock them and so they stay after their like we just stay there like till when and they're like till we're done with the amount that we had to do it's [ __ ] dude it was crazy to watch I mean it was just it was basically it started this harmonious thing of like a little town that's going under being rebirthed by this Chinese company coming in creating more jobs all the stuff really turned into a it was warfare it was just like us first then at some point essentially what happens because their way of life is so different our way of work is so uniquely different [ __ ] it was nuts so they were like Americans are lazy that's literally what the whole the documentary is essentially like Americans getting mad at work conditions being poor and unhealthy and Chinese saying American are lazy babies that's that's literally what the document is about so wow that's incredible so they're sort of like that's just like late stage industrial capitalism reaching the apex which is that the worker not only is unaware of their the they're being exploited but the workers started taking pride in the level at which they're being exploited yes they're like yeah we don't want to get exploited as much as you they're like you [ __ ] [ __ ] don't you have any pride be a grown-up and let them eat your soul alive it's almost like if you're going to be it's like it's like if I'm it's like the idea like if I'm bed if I'm dead just bury me in the ground let the bugs have me you know it's like well Marty it's like if I'm already sacrificed to this thing then let me get eaten totally alive totally it just ravaged me use every single piece of me because I don't give a [ __ ] yeah that's what they did it's a beaut so wonderful documentary it shows I mean many other angles that's not the that's not the only point but that seems to be the pinnacle of the the apex of the documentary is all about the sacrifice that that culture makes versus what our culture needs and is used to right and by the way every single second of the day you're like yeah [ __ ] people shouldn't work in [ __ ] up conditions like of course not that's insane right they just have been conditioned to not complain because they're lucky to have jobs and they part of the the social zeitgeist it's like you just don't complain did we talk about I don't think we did and I don't know how true this is the thing I heard but I think it's true how during the industrial revolution they started putting clock towers in towns no I don't know this oh yeah and people were like basically rioting because they didn't want the clock towers the clock towers were getting put there because they wanted people to come at a certain time right and before that people didn't really function like that yeah you just made it when you made it yeah yeah or when the Sun was coming up you would want to go work and on the land right but then the clock tower will replace his Sun and so people were like viciously resisted it because they recognized how [ __ ] up what was happening was and then over time we just got used to this concept of well 40-hour workweek 60-hour workweek overtime commutes and all that we all kind of like yeah that's just the way it is what you do but it's it doesn't it doesn't really have to be that way oh but we think it's that way so we keep doing it do you ever think about that thing if like what would happen if everybody just stopped working for a week yeah what would happen I think the economy would collapse maybe if we just stopped spending money for a week and didn't go to work if everyone stopped at once well that yeah you wouldn't need notice you would need like 80% and then that 80% would have to be organized yeah with just a set of demands the problem with any of this is or like when somebody says like these massive problems on paper should be easy to fix right like massive starvation and hunger and like poor water sources around the world yeah yeah there's a many smart people that go well if every billionaire literally got together and was like I'll donate 10% buy worth to make sure that this can happen yeah it still wouldn't solve the problems this is the same follow me because what I'm saying is like there's so much bureaucracy to get anything done like if you do a TV show or film or really anything or even a stand at live stand-up show you begin to realize how many puzzle pieces need to like fit to make one thing happen yeah so the only thing I could think of was one you're like God if everyone just stopped doing one thing all at once you know it we could do it but even when we all are doing something at once we're still not doing it in unison right look you know how hard it is like at a football game like that that's you know thousands of people grouped together but they're all kind of on their own system yeah they're all in the same place but to get everyone to do the same thing is lit all most important almost impossible it would require like a bio weapon it's great that's what I mean it would be the threat of the threat you'd have to say like we either all need to stop doing this immediately or I'll hit this button and we will die oh yeah but I mean more like somebody would you know how there's so many things people don't want to talk about right now like right now we're really less about Trump yeah and we're really worried about the government we're really worried about the environment but like people don't seem like they want to talk about some of the other ship which is CRISPR gene editing and that shit's insane yeah yeah yeah and and you know how much of what we do is just genetic data that were reacting to and imagining it's free well right so it's I remember interviewing this guy at singularity University which is like Ray Kurzweil and this guy think his name's Peter DM on des and they're all these like they just study technology and look at like what you're talking about which is what what it what are like the main problems on planet earth right one of them being dirty water like filth filth yeah if we could clean the water then if we could figure out a really low-cost environmentally friendly mechanism for cleaning water than we would instantly eliminate a huge swath of diseases they have waterborne illnesses and that would solve like one of the big problems of the world so they look at like that top-down stuff like what's at the very pinnacle integral of the real issue right yeah yeah so in what they found now is the real problem is that in the center of the earth there is a being very evil being and he goes by many names yeah and it's essentially what we call the devil and so yeah if we can kill the devil then the world all the problems of the world will stop but you you want the devil to thrive well look it's like I don't see why we're gonna do some kind of bigoted [ __ ] against the devil what is it that he lives and we're gonna keep colonizing all the way down into hell is that our plan yeah chop the head off some subterranean being if you think it as a head it has a lot of heads but that's one of the problems is the heads grow back right away but they grow back as your parents so like you cut the heads off then you have to cut your parents heads off and then it's a real [ __ ] mess it's just a continual it's just so just a big domino effect the problem I think people aren't realizing it this guy in this interview he was telling me like oh like the problem is that as technology becomes more accessible for everybody mm-hmm then that means that people are going to get more access to things like for example right now if you and I want to shoot a satellite up in the sky and have a successful satellite we we don't have the technology to do that of no very expensive but I could get it done but it'd be very hard it would be a lot of money that but and probably there's crazy like licenses you might have to get to watch I don't know it would break the law to get it done yes we could you could yeah but there he one of these things like that's probably in like 20 or 30 years that's gonna be a thing people could just do you had to be like I just want to send a satellite up just to bounce information to somebody else shoot a satellite down and then the other thing he said is like you know look based on the way we're beginning to understand 3d printers we're gonna have biological 3d printers though you know let's say it's like 50 years you know which isn't that long no what is long for technology it's long for technology probably won't even be that long but let's just imagine in it was going to be 30 years before people are going to be able to use 3d printers print viruses what yeah that's what he was saying is like Oh basically where we're headed is it's gonna get to the point where the [ __ ] people are doing with like ar-15s they're gonna be able to do with Ebola holy [ __ ] yeah so yours print and print pretty tens and thousands of diversions of disease yeah and then not only that but like if this CRISPR stuff were if you were able to like somehow print a virus that when it got into you it didn't give you a disease but it just changed your chromosomes or your genetics so that it made you more docile or maybe it made you more like I don't know just less interested in nationalism or if you could find genes associated with specific personalities specifically let's just say schizophrenia and you weaponize some virus that makes people schizophrenic then you could theoretically drive a country insane this was with some genetically engineer what do you think that would start oh I think it would probably here but I mean like what group of people do you think they would target because I feel like whenever diseases or you know whenever things are created whenever the government is aided in pushing out of something whether or not you believe that to be true is your own opinion but whether or not you think that crack wasn't targeted that's your your opinion I guess but like when diseases and these things are kind of not just created or pushed they tend to be kind of like push at an extremely specific route because they know that that'll be the funnel effect too like all the other things yeah who do you think they would give the diseases to first whoever is sitting on the [ __ ] oil man see I think I think the homeless would be the first to get these diseases yeah and it will activate them to spread it in major metropolitan areas sure because I already think I read this article the other day about there was 9000 attacks by mentally unstable and or intoxicated homeless on civilians yeah last year 9,000 yeah and they said it's up its up up 30 times are you talking about the hot bucket of Diary complicated diarrhea I saw that yeah it was thing yeah like a woman got hot a hot bucket of diarrhea dumped on her head yeah by a homeless guy downtown now so I love reddit and I was reading them right right up the comments yes because some of the comments are so funny but some of them are really smart yeah and somebody was like if it was hot diarrhea there's a chance that he heated it on a fire yeah cuz I couldn't have come out and stayed warm for that long well someone's like no you know he probably was like storing it up in a bucket I think it sat in the Sun for a long time yeah and then the response to it was if someone's crazy enough to save their diarrhea up in a bucket all bets are off meaning why not yeah why wouldn't you heat your diary up yeah with like a little Coleman stove and a wooden spoon next to a soup actual dinner is there and then his [ __ ] party is there yeah right next to the soup that's like getting processed through his body to make his [ __ ] horrific damage and it ends but I tell you man to me that's I feel like that would be my luck is I'd be the guy in the tent next to the guy who's slowly heating is [ __ ] diarrhea and just smelling the the waffle of cooking bubbling death when it just starts bubbling that first moment when your diary just starts bubbling kazooie yes cuz in human history like outside of like nuclear I guess when like her Oshima happen there was probably places where diarrhea naturally started boiling or something I could nurse it that I imagined or an or in in pits there there must have been when there was diary [ __ ] that's yeah people had shipped it's for a long time you know I mean people had [ __ ] pits were prior to bathroom people just had [ __ ] pit right you dug a hole and I'm sure [ __ ] pits that got filled up by certain I mean that's a problem in India I was watching the dung you know the dung party do you know what that is once a year for good luck there's a there's a town maybe in India that they go they rummage through animal dung and throw it at each other and it's like for fun it's because of the overwhelming amount of [ __ ] in the town but they think it's good luck because it's it's animal poop and it's gonna bless them into the new year right yeah cow [ __ ] why don't we do that why don't we just have a cow [ __ ] party well there's no cows around here I know we got to go up north a little bit you would have to go up north you'd have to like but I think probably we could do it well let's have a [ __ ] but I think we should throw a [ __ ] party there's fog like that's funny cuz it's just like somebody has fond memories of like and their parents they for the for the you get to have a little bit of sweet revenge a throwing [ __ ] at your parents because it's joyful it's a celebration can you imagine that's like having a punch party you know what I mean it's your abusive parent just being able to punch them four ways yeah watching that streak of [ __ ] cow shits matter in their face they have to act like they like those kinds of things they're kind of wonderful it's kind of wonderful a wonderful but you know those traditions start with a charismatic crazy person like those I would imagine it's like a person who's got some charisma or has like an entourage or people that are afraid of him and he's like let's throw [ __ ] at each other and they're too weak to be like no I don't want to do that they're too weak because they have to go along yeah okay sure it's like if a famous guy did that like that's that's it that's the level of popularity that's what power and fame can do yeah if a local famous guy was like we should throw [ __ ] on each other everyone's kind of like I don't know but the famous guys like do it you should do it you want to be like a part of this thing that I'm doing do it and people like I guess I really do like him the one deep kiss ass dude yeah we'll be like [ __ ] yeah that'll be awesome man can I throw your [ __ ] if you poop in my hands I can throw your [ __ ] at some of the commoners I'll be awesome man awesome and then the guy who's like jealous but boy [ __ ] man I guess that yes man wants to throw [ __ ] so I'll do it I guess and you resist for a long time yeah but then you realize it's the smart move it's a smart move everyone's doing it trauma bonding that's what that's true yeah trauma bonding is a big thing I mean that's how people kind of get rid of [ __ ] from their past pun intended when you get to execute it out with other people who have something similar yeah I've lived through the same pain yes yeah it's why like soldiers are always like that's why like the VFW is like this beautiful place for soldiers to reminisce about the hard times we love like we love getting together to group about how hard it was for us together do you know what I mean like that well if you ever work in a restaurant one of people's favorite things to do in the service industry is complain about working in the service industry it's probably the pinnacle of the service industry is being like bitching about customers about what it's like to work certain algae wait tables I did dude i bartend it I bust I hosted cool I serve I did everything I did literally everything except for make food I wash dishes I did it all I wash dishes I bust I waited tables at Applebee's busboy at Chili's my big move was Applebee's washed dishes at Chili's I was the only I'm only pausing because I'm like well I guess maybe I am disabled a little bit but like I was the only like not disabled dishwasher all the other leech Watchers were like yeah they were like trying to like give people work who shows you mentally disabled yes please a mentally disabled so you were the only by science terms non mentally disabled yeah yeah and I loved I was like of all that and comedy had been my favorite jobs on earth just one dish oh [ __ ] that's why was it so why was it so nice there's a lot of reasons one of the reasons is what we I think a lot of people don't understand that you can get really good at washing dishes yeah so you can get really fast and then in anything that allows for that ability like get get really really good is somehow quite satisfying also weirdly having your hands in water all day is like quite nice like spraying water and stuff is cool but then also the expectations of the dishwasher are zero right no one has any any expectation but that you're gonna [ __ ] up probably or that you're just like you're not gonna you're the dishwasher you're just washing dishes there's nothing else that's really expected of you right well all the server's are like losing [ __ ] [ __ ] up an order or the chefs are like you know like wanting to kill somebody because they ordered a steak that they made but then it wasn't a steak so they have to throw it away some metric think it's the chef's in trouble or some [ __ ] and all this like intense drama you're just over there just washing [ __ ] dishes humming Led Zeppelin to yourself not thinking about anything and also it's like what do you got pride yeah over your job hell no hell no you are not a slave to the sad pride that many of us are encumbered by when it comes to our particular profession right you might be proud because you're doing a good job yeah but that's not gonna be the first thing you tell somebody that you or maybe trying to like hook up with you're like well you know I'm a dishwasher no you just say I work at the restaurant yeah or do you do all right to a bunch of different stuff I love acid I like going on hikes and I look what I have sitting there like what do you do there's a job I wash dishes I do I do some [ __ ] at the restaurant but I mostly do a sit and hike that's so that's the exchange yeah I did that I did a busboy which was great cuz I would just get high and put on headphones and nobody bothered me another job where it's like don't yell at me because you don't want to do this job it's great to work a job when no one can yell at you really because if you quit it's harder to find someone that's willing to do that kind of Attic at a common pace like a lot of times you find someone that does these laborious jobs and they do it for a short period of time they basically half-ass it so if you're just kind of doing it the way you're supposed to be doing it you can kind of meander through it and it's fine and and it's what are you you're gonna yell at me fire me yeah I [ __ ] I [ __ ] clean up [ __ ] fire me fire me just go get another guy then yeah so to them it's like it's more of a hassle to find another guy that is cool with cleaning up [ __ ] than just dealing with your either incompetence or lack of care that's right it's kind of wonderful like busing was really fun cuz I would just get the you know clean up [ __ ] get stoned and then sometimes flirt with some of the servers like that was always fun for some reason it was attractive to be a busboy cuz I was you're attractive yeah but I think you've I thought it was something about it that was like my carelessness was attractive to the servers right my talking [ __ ] like I would [ __ ] around with tables just cuz I could yeah and when I became a server this distrain was immense I [ __ ] hear you yeah I hated it that's it it sucked that you had the the the dealing with people the the taking someone's attitude I also worked at a place for I was I was at Outback Steakhouse and then after that I worked at like a a bar and they had dollar wing nights and people would come in and order two wings to it like give me too much yeah and then you're like what kind of tip would I get from this why would I want to work where people are gonna get a four dollar bill well do you do bear witness to this like that to the quote clever consumer yeah that go right right which is ironic is typically they're not the smartest people on earth they're coming in there like they feel like they have like truly cracked they cracked the system it's like the people who bring like secret like compartments in their jacket to buffets like to fill up mashed potatoes into the compartments to like get food out that they it's that kind of thing where it's like their sites have been set on a weird form of like not it's not theft but it's like they're they're in there too like okay so I just want to make sure this is all you can eat right uni breadsticks I'm gonna order a million breadsticks a little bit that you want all of them yeah that's all of a [ __ ] weird thing where they're these corporations they've created these fake ass places that are modeled after a place that once really existed right like Applebee's was it's like this is like the neighborhood place it's like cheers this way come talk to the bartender even like that you want to see a creepy [ __ ] place man go god it's the wind ease in Panorama City panorama said the Wendy's at panorama city Wendy's is one of the most surreal places that you end up there because you're probably going to buy furniture because there's like a furniture store buy their carpet there's carpet up the big carpet there yeah so you're already probably arguing with your wife maybe you're starving a fight is happening a fight is about it's gonna which means that like that Wendy's in Panorama City is sort of like a fight for Texas it is what couples are struggling with something already and this Wendy's is kind of just just so happens to be the thing that catches all the [ __ ] it's just a place in the middle of the stores but it's also in the middle of like one like one of those parking lots that should be in like a fillip like what's that documentary Philip Glass did the music for that I could never pronounce the name like Carwin squawk yeah yeah or whatever I know I know do-do-do-do-do-do yeah camera then I know how to say it yeah where it's like look what has happened didn't modern times it's like one of those like you know and so my wife and I are sitting there I think post-fight but we've made up we're sitting there we decide [ __ ] it we'll just order some food but you go into this Wendy's and for whatever reason that Wendy's is really trying to seem like a down-home nice place what they've done is in the middle of the Wendy's there's a fake fire with like something rolling inside of it look at like an image of a fake fire that like a look of I'm mechanical yeah yeah but do they need to oil it they haven't oiled the log so it's literally going like just just this awful sound as the log is rolling in there and then we're eating the burger we both got sick for like two days from the burger which we shouldn't be but then we're like looking out in the parking lot and that's when you see like the guy who is like beyond homeless like he's in a loincloth given up all right homeless is the is a step above where he's at yeah this is a squalor he's at he or he's in like maybe he's like an enlightened being or some being that's like transcended society altogether or is just someone dedicated to just really really being like three maybe what free free totally free but like like like if he was like in a set department if there was a set to part they were really you got to take some of the Rhys off of them because no one's gonna believe that right like but so as you're eating this weird burger listening to the squeak in this [ __ ] place where they really have someone's like let's just make this seem like a ski lodge in the middle of a parking lot right and then you look up and there's the guy just stick you lating weird like hand mudras or gestures that appear to be some kind of sorcery staring up at the Sun and you're like what dimension are we in yeah are we still even an earth it's the kind of place where if you saw like the shimmering hologram of a predator or something right zipping by you might not be that surprised you might be like oh oh yeah if I keep going deeper in the panorama city at some point I bet it's not a parking lot anymore but it turns into like just a crater or something you know [Laughter] another portal why is it that these places these outskirt places are tend to be the the portal to another world why is it that typically they don't have in a major metropolitan areas do you think there's a connection between that because like the more I watch ghost shows or apparition finding or even like places that have a lot of energy whether it better be negative or positive like overwhelming it's always like outskirts it's always outskirts like why why do you think why why in the center of a metropolitan area it does it not tend to have that thing you know like the the the the the apparition worth of a place tends to be how far it is away from the center of things I wonder why well it's like this is what one of the you know I don't think we're gonna have it in our lifetimes I'm probably never gonna have it but it's one of those dreams I have is like a rewinding device so that I could you know you always need like and I know man I have no idea how this works but like we were saying earlier this momentum it carries on yeah so then that means that theoretically if light has been bouncing off the earth and is going into space then we had a way to travel faster than the speed of light does that mean that we could then beat the light that emanated from the earth and like the 70s or the 60s or 50s and look at what the earth look like then like theoretically can we have some kind of time telescope and look back but because in a place like panorama city in that parking lot I would like to rewind I would like to rewind right and see what it was like in in the 70s and then what it was like in the 1870s and what it was like in like 70 BC and because my theory is it always sucked like it was always [ __ ] it was never a good place it sucked from its inception yeah which and suck by the way transcends time yeah to a degree that we couldn't explain things that suck tend to always suck yeah what just can't get over the suck it's just like it was a sucky [ __ ] place for beings prior to right organisms hated it or yeah just even though even like that like whatever the [ __ ] it was even the pre pre life materials didn't look right compared I didn't want to live there yeah they were almost escaping panorama city yeah to try to get closer to any other area anywhere else yeah I wonder about that luck makes its way through time very well for some reason right it's hard to change or it was is it like maybe at some point someone did some horrible thing like we don't know there could have a ritual some warlock just was like something cursed that area yeah whatever was ruined the energy of the area and now it exists forever like that and sometimes I do like when I'm like when I you know I let my mind go where it wants to most of the time which I love about it thank you but I don't believe this stuff but it's fun to think about but sometimes I think wait maybe just one very very evil person lives nearby and we're experiencing that the hell radiation coming from their heart and it's just like cursing like maybe there was a time when people oh you've got a you've got a Darkling around here just find them and like cut his head off and he'll be cleansed right you know but we don't we don't know that now so just like oh this something's off here you know there's lots of places like that though where there's like tendencies for things to happen you know there's places where there's more of a chance that a thing will happen for better for worse not just metaphysically but like there's places where there's types of weather that show up so why wouldn't that be true for like metaphysical stuff like wet dark weather patterns well like I've tried to explain to many of people that yesterday my wife said something she goes your strongest emotion is nostalgia hmm and I was like really and she's like by far not even nothing is even close she goes even like the love you have for me it's not even close to nostalgia I was like how could that be true she's like because the way it connects to you is so unexplainably unique the way you act is very strange and I was like wow cuz I can't see the way I act wouldn't in regards to that stuff but I do know what she's talking about like I do know that places from my past make me feel a type away yeah that I can't [ __ ] I cannot articulate I wish I could it's it's almost gross it's almost over overwhelming when I go to but when I think right now about going to Phoenix it like it is that my phone I don't know that's the most unprofessional [ __ ] cares but how weird is this my ringer is off but it's ringing I think you the answer can I have more whiskey yeah I want to get some more whiskey for us but isn't that [ __ ] weird that my phone is off but it's ringing why is that is this because I need a new phone who knows that maybe it's an Amber Alert who's amber she's we'll be right back after these messages let me go get let me go get a little pour some but there cannot you want you poured go ahead but I'm not even a little bit you're a guest in my home it's delicious right should I go fill up some more yeah in the meantime you need to you did that's good you need to tell I'm gonna go get a little bit more from the other room you need to UM you need to take this question and run with it so while I leave the room you can go okay okay if you could come back as a quote-unquote typical ghost or like an you know there's like a serial being yeah where in the United States would it be can't be the world we're in the United States would it be you want you want me to think about it and so you get back I want you to talk about it till I get back okay start to explain to the people your process okay great so all right we're gonna have to deal with a few things like the first consideration is what kind of ghost am I gonna be that seems almost more important than where you're gonna be you know are you gonna be a poltergeist are you gonna be a Lich I'm probably gonna want to be a Lich over a poltergeist I think poltergeists are just annoying throw [ __ ] drag little girls in the closets for no reason a witch I'm gonna be a Lich yeah I think I'm gonna be like a Hawaiian Lit Hawaiian Lich yeah you want to be a Hawaiian Lich I like that like we're in Hawaii which Island though I'm gonna do probably Hana Hana yeah yeah yeah you know like a nice lava tube right it's got a ocean view that ends in the ocean it's gonna have definitely like dark parts it's gonna have sky lights from natural openings in the lava tube yes but for some reason people aren't gonna go in there that much for some reason and also maybe like a badass mid-century modern house from the 60s collapsed into some part of the lava tube so I've got a nice you've got some of that remnants left Brady Bunch style house I can go into if I want to and yeah so Hawaiian little you know the nice spacious lava tube is in front if I could haunt if I could be a being after this and get to haunt anywhere it would be Orlando Florida Wow yeah Orlando because I I like almost nothing about it so I feel like they deserve all my haunted a lot of work yeah it's a lot but you know what I'm ready for the work in the afterlife okay be yours I'm ready for all the work you're ready James ghost yeah I'm a vengeance ghost why because I just feel like it's gonna it's gonna help pass the time until whatever comes next you're an immortal being yeah do you know how bored you're gonna get is scaring people you're not scaring people [ __ ] with them okay okay I'm gonna be fun stuff like what I'm gonna you know it's always gonna be families that are visiting Disneyworld by the way that's my whole aim as like families that come in from other places so I really get a collection on the entire United States sure but do fun stuff like tuck a guy's wiener in his butt so when he wakes up his wieners in his butt I'll never be able to explain that to almost anybody that's cool you don't I mean no but we'll never explain that to almost anybody switching a car tire out from one car to another how okay I have ultimate ability I've thought about this I can do almost anything listen man I'm not trying to [ __ ] on don't [ __ ] on my plan like I want to talk about getting that Wiener in the butt okay sure that's my tits I've thought about this a lot so yeah first of all a lot of people sleep on their side so technically not to get goes nerdy on you you're yeah you're a poltergeist yeah because you have the ability you're not a wraith you're not have known the poltergeist you're a poseur yeah so you're gonna have to like figure out a way to do this without the guy waking up you're assuming a lot of people sleep through a lot especially someone that's not drunk or on drugs okay so it's like people who are doped up at Disneyland yeah like some fat dad who doesn't give a [ __ ] about his kid that's all so like I'm just doing this speak to keep this marriage together it's falling apart he hates marry his wife he cannot stand her so he blacks out he goes home back to the hotel he just Falls his fat body onto the bed okay then he lays with one leg you know half over the sideways so his [ __ ] is kind of between his legs okay all I simply need to do is grab and tuck its grab and tuck you know you're gonna need it easy I don't I don't know the adhesive it comes from probably the sweat from his ass from the swass you don't think the sweat is gonna keep it or not no there's no way I need to purchase some I need to have something that's gonna keep it in there what if he's just well-endowed I think yeah if he's walking down it changes everything that I'm looking for guys with big dicks that are passed out on yeah how much is that how after you're gonna I guess that's more common than you think yeah that's that I'd it's more common than you think I've seen a lot of fat drunk losers at Disney World with big dicks well I can't that's hard see that part you're right that part that's hard I don't know about that think you're setting yourself up for disappointment you get adhesive if you have access to every day I just feel like I don't need to use items though I don't want to use items you know what I mean I want to do it because that he's like he's gonna go somebody superglued my dick was it one of my kids somebody did it that's [ __ ] that's great it's gonna [ __ ] with it that's truly okay okay otherwise you're just gonna be like ah my dick out of my ass again again yeah this guy's dick do I follow one guy for the rest of his life and just keep talking that's a haunting that's a haunting I would love this guy goes on on dr. Phil he can't explain why his dick keeps getting put in his ass sincere 60 minutes things which I love which is like when like 60 minutes or any of these shows takes a person it's like what was great about the freak shows and I think maybe liberating for some of the performers is that you were just like yeah people this is like a freak and the people are here to see this insane thing yeah and there is like a community of freaks I think that's kind of what the Comedy Store is it is all kind of freaks yep and like we know it and so like there's something wonderful about that but these days like you take this man who is being haunted by this [ __ ] crazy ghost who could be doing any you could be going to Paris you could be like going to the great places of the world as a ghost you're an immortal being yeah you could be helping people you could be wood but instead you found one man and you're just tucking his dick in his [ __ ] for his whole [ __ ] life isn't that beautiful there's something amazing about that so but you know what I love is like you take that guy I could see the interview with his wife yeah and like no one is watching that show nobody cuz they feel sorry because he's there watching cuz like holy [ __ ] hey come in here look at this crazy [ __ ] he's like dick goes in his ass every night they do now to stop it it's like ruining his marriage it's [ __ ] up his colon they don't know what to do he's getting like infections in his dick but they filmed it it's coming up after the commercial they put cameras on his ass and dick at night and look oh my god it looks like something's actually grabbing and pushing but they would play it all sincere yeah the interviewer would have to be like wow this is like we don't know what it is science can't explain it they've taken him to like Caltech or whatever yeah yeah yeah yeah Caltech movie they can't wrap their head around why this guy keeps getting his wiener in his but it's yeah at some point he accepts it in the latter half of his life he just accepts this is a part of who he really is yeah so you know what he does what before he goes to bed he puts his own dick in his own ass and he beats me to the punch and that's it then he's learned his lesson then I then he's finally gone then that's it then he goes I'm gonna beat you too I'm gonna put my own dick in my own ass and that's all I wanted to show him I said he's learned all this is about you taught him so much that's like a huge breakthrough it's like a breakthrough moment for him it's a this is like a teenage hijinks film I really wanted to do its show a guy that he could put his own dick in his own ass man that's beautiful that's actually really for a second I'm like wow it seems like but now I get now you get it yeah I love it that's like it honestly it's like a holiday hallmark that's like a Lifetime movie yeah yeah it's beautiful it's a guy from the the little town goes to the big city for the big you know what I mean there is it big city goes to little town this is the reverse this is little town goes to the big city of Orlando Orlando's big okay big and fancy oh I got rollercoasters buses but you like cuts in line or something you got to do like some why is he an [ __ ] yeah you know what he's done he's he's print printed fake tickets fake Disney Disney Disney World tickets and he sells them to families this guy's a scumbag he's a piece of [ __ ] he deserves he has printed off fake tickets and he sells them to families so I think if we're gonna do the back story this what happens is you are alive yeah and you buy one of these fake tickets and then you go to you spent like the last bit of your money $800 with my wife and my two kids to go in yeah Disney Disney World they're so happy and you just got out of prison yeah just recently and this money you were working for like 30 years in a prison factor 26 years yeah 26 years to save up the Andrew bucks you kept telling your wife that the end of this your - I'm using this money I'm gonna take us to Disney Disney we're always been my dream yeah and so you're out there this guy comes up he's like hey this is better a full price yeah soccer's I can't make it man my my wife's sick let me just sell you mine because you know we're not gonna use them and they ripped you off there I don't I won't rip you off this is this will be half the cost so you bring the ticket and then they don't let you in and whatever that [ __ ] that happened you in prison activates hold on here's what happens they don't let me in and they scan it's a fake ticket yeah and then they arrest me because they're like you can't you you're someone's producing these fake tickets we're gonna investigate so I get arrested yeah in that regard I go back to prison I violated my parole for trying to use false tickets all right I'm back in prison here and I die in prison yeah I get Epstein in prison I get killed yeah frame it as a suicide they epstein me and as my ghost I begin to follow that man so this guy yeah well then it gets really great because I mean this now we're getting into more like an action movie but you have an action physic it's a cabal of like fake counterfeit Orlando ticket people yeah so now it's a revenge flick where you're shoving all their dicks in their eyes everybody everyone that screwed me over yeah you want to [ __ ] him over now he's gonna [ __ ] you yeah but this is a weird parallel thought but I what we fly so much as comics do you ever think when turbulence hits the plane that that's literally like forces doing that just to like check you a little bit whoa now for some reason I feel like I'm like why that's gotta be like that's that there's this weird I know it's not but every time I'm like why does turbulence happen in very specific chunks and they almost happened the way you exactly how you think they're gonna happen right when you feel a few small ones and then you know there's gonna be one big one and a few more small ones after that it's almost like the pattern is planned it's very creepy the worst turbulence I've ever experienced yeah on a plane was when [ __ ] Rogen took me to the UK to do a show with him because the UFC was in the UK right the UFC flew him first-class on Air France I've never experienced that this is one of those like you can lay down and all that [ __ ] eh yeah yeah yeah man and it was like you know you're it's like you Yugi they drive you to the plane yeah there's a secret lounge where like Robin Williams walked in for a second like for a second you before he killed himself or after this is after dude we're talking ghosts right yeah you walked in and took both of our dicks and all right all right market maybe [ __ ] you're not gonna say no it's Robin Williams goes yeah why would you say no but this so we hit we're over the ocean and I have taken some crazy edible and so I am as high as you can be like that on planes no hate it it was a huge mistake I do not get high on planes anymore but it seemed like I it's a comfortable seat they give you slippers nope you're looking around you're like for a second you are witnessing you know something like the Illuminati it's like people you know cuz I'm like when I've got a bag of [ __ ] it comes with a seat yeah I'm like holy [ __ ] toothpaste sucks yeah they bless you bless they blessed you with these items yeah pajamas yeah but then you're looking I'm like holy what the [ __ ] is this what like this then you look over and there's some guy who definitely looks like you could turn into a reptile and he's just like oh yeah time to put on my flight pajamas you know you you put on your flight Barry normal that level of insane crazy wealth but yeah we hit this [ __ ] like ocean turbulence and somewhere in there I'm sorry and I'm like maybe Joe is Satan right it kind of makes sense you know like he's lured me into maybe he does this every maybe this is one of the things he just does and he'll is he like she like takes you into this beautiful place and then just the plane crashes and you just you they you know crazy thoughts like is it well why did you think you deserve this well in your mind did you really imagine this amazes when you got yeah Air France first class with Rogan with your [ __ ] plane pajamas and she you thought this was real come on God is gonna take you out right now you're like it's a simulator it's gonna annihilate you you're out of your level and then in like a thick [ __ ] French accent which I can't do that do not try it though my days I can't do it mother asthma there's there mu there's nothing I can't do either mother's mother's hold your infants mother's hold your infant that's what he said he said girls hold your infants yes oh you're insane we're bells ding ding ding mothers ho and you're like oh my god this is not good people are sleeping and he's waking them up telling mothers to hold their head Vince I'm thinking about this [ __ ] awful book that I saw I didn't buy it but it's like the transcripts from black boxes yuck by the way the phrase mothers hold your infant sounds like it's one of those things that's on a black box before it is I'm sure it is Hojo Dean phones yeah mothers hold your infants is that you're holding them when you crash into the ocean but then yeah man there's one in that book one is very savages the pilot just started singing lullabies over the PA system yep as the plane was going down he just started singing lullabies what do you think your what do you think your instinct would be if you were piloting a plane and it's literally going down and you know it's crashing what's your instinct you're a pilot it's you and the copilot is crying he has no idea what to do he's lost the planes crashing it's literally there's no chance of pulling out this is it I would say guys this is we're done here very casual guys we're done here hey this is your pilot guys we're done here hey fellas um we're done we're done here I would so I would be torn between me like well I would want to be honest with everyone because it's like yeah they deserve to know they're all about to die yeah why don't they give us more honest approach when they say like we're gonna be Spears a little bit of chop why can't they just go hey over Iowa it's gonna be [ __ ] I'm gonna be real with you it's gonna suck yeah okay yeah we're gonna get out of that by the time we hit Illinois and then smooth sailin almost until we get to New York we might hit some more [ __ ] up [ __ ] I wish they would just get on and talk about I would love to be talked through wouldn't be cool to be talked through turbulence like I think you just get on and be like whoa that sucked right [ __ ] that listen we're gonna keep this moving yeah be awesome yeah be cool there's a chick like you could choose what channel you dialed it into on the plane which is like you want hyper formality where we're like oh we're gonna turbulence do you want like to let shoes which version you're out of here yeah that would be [ __ ] wonderful so the pilot is like oh yeah this [ __ ] sucks I've got this climate change probably I don't know what it is but it was never like this when I was a kid I'll tell you that and that being said that means we don't know what's gonna happen that's cool that that's kind of what I would want [ __ ] golf ball-sized hail could easily just smash through the window right now and ruin this whole thing we're all dead plummet down and weird you know it's gonna happen PS you know how much I get paid [ __ ] baby I just want you to know that [ __ ] honey baby and I don't feel good just you know I don't feel great I don't want to be up here anyway so I just want you to know I'm not gonna crash the plane but I'm not gonna if it's going it's going kiddo yeah is it this is my time then this is my time and I'm at peace with a very realistic Channel yeah it's a very just realistic do you what if there was a what if you could tune into one of those for your daily life what if there was some sort of like headphones you could put in that was telling you what's gonna go on in your daily life and give you the real breakdown that'd be great yeah like listen man this next thing is gonna suck you just got to get through it it's not that big of a deal just get through it if it coasts you through it well that is the that's what one of the things I [ __ ] love about Buddhism is that it one of the invitations in it is just stop trying to change for a second and so it's really interesting interesting thing and just be right yeah yeah it's it's basically like just the truth of suffering so sort of it's like and I I mean I'm not very good at doing it because I always want to feel better if I'm like you think anybody's really good at doing it yeah I'm happy people will see what you say that but don't we all don't we continually kind of have this comparison of others happiness and in some regard we're all kind of hunting for a higher level of happiness and satisfaction don't you think most people are that way yes that is so who is ultimately happy well what's so paradoxical about the whole thing is is that the moment like when I guess the best way to put it is have you ever gotten in a huge fight we their life yes and but what and you wake up the next morning you haven't resolved the fight but when you wake up you forget that you got in a fight do you know what I mean like something awful thing happens yeah you wake up in the morning you don't remember the awful thing at all you're just laying in bed and in that millisecond before you're like bio-computer boots up you feel like wonderful like yes just like there's a sense of like whoa this is this is great like you're alive you're just existing it's before you even know where you're at it's before even know you are there's just this sense of like ahh and then all of a sudden you remember and you're like oh god oh god oh no no no no but right before that happens yeah there's a moment of peace that's what you are that's what you are so that's like the fundamental nature of you and then a story appears that you're telling yourself and in that story there's all there's all the suffering and pain so the idea is like before all that kicks in you're you're wonderful and then the other stuff starts kicking and so now we have anxiety or whatever we fear anger or whatever but then what's really interesting is if like you you don't resist any of that for a second and you just look at the anxiety you look at the anger you look at whatever it may be feel it you realize it's a perfect feeling yeah like the anxiety is perfect like the anger is perfect the sadness is perfect when you really look at how incredible it is that your body is just effortlessly manifesting perfect anxiety there's like resonant real feeling it would like imagine if you had to make it yourself like if you had to do it you know you had to you had to make the anxiety you couldn't it's so perfect no yeah you couldn't produce stunning and then if you look at like the thoughts that are then begin to surround the anxiety the horror stories you're telling yourself the vividness of it it's like holy [ __ ] I must be some kind of genius that my mind can just instantly [ __ ] out hyper-realistic prognostications for some kind of dark future with me exerting no effort at all but with a kind of realism that if it was on a canvas people would like think I was one of the great painters of all time my mind just spitting it out no problem at all so in all when you really start looking at the individual pieces of the suffering you realize each individual piece is perfect it couldn't be more amazing it's startling ly beautiful even in its worst like even the worst configurations and so then within that Buddhism the diagnosis is like yeah really the problem is just more that you're resisting the feeling than the feeling itself it's your trunk you know what I mean that you're trying to get out of it right you want it to change you're wanting to not be there we don't like sitting in it that's it yeah we just don't like sitting in it yeah it's hard for us for some reason really really hard it's instinctual right that's instinct that's got to be instinct based that people are uncomfortable with with just their own discomfort yeah they don't know how to live with their own they don't know how to be just uncomfortable even though they've created it yes that's my my ID I want to like so if like something is malfunctioning I want to fix it not right now within the next 10 minutes right now now I want to come up with an eye a plan and then I want to change it right then and then into it all right that's reality that you get reactive in that way because it's just hard to not just to sit in the pain but just to sit not in security and wrestling but to not do anything is almost even harder that's almost more challenging that's why it's so hard to be at peace with oneself because you're like I have to I have to change it I have to fix all this stuff I feel that all the time I feel in overwhelming sense if I have to do it right now if I don't get it done right now I'm gonna have a [ __ ] panic attack yeah and she's the opposite she's more like the old bag my old ball-and-chain the old anchor you know what I mean the old slag now she's more she's more balanced than the idea and she's fine with it that it's like yeah just you know we'll figure it out I'm more PAMP yer panic I'm more like if I can't get this done I'm so far away from being a Buddhist it's I wish I could learn more about how to calm you know I learned about SRF a dad I liked her dad's into that what is that self-realization fellowship oh yeah yeah that's a yoga memoir the original you yeah I read some of that probably the hardest thickest read I've ever had in my entire life well it's just extremely arduous it's just so thick it's kind of like um I'm reading this book right now my neighbor gave me called uh that's swim-two-birds and it's impossible I mean it's so hard what is the book at swim-two-birds it's uh it's just irish this very famous Irish novelist and he essentially part of the crux of the stories about telling the tale of this young Irish man who lives with his alcoholic uncle trying to go back to university and it's just this very deep dark rich thick divulge n't si you know what I mean but it's but but yeah you have to really dig through it to find little wonderful pieces yeah I have to read things like five times yeah I haven't had that in a long time we have to reread yeah it's very which of its heavy it's a lot it's fun when you're high because at least when I'm high I can read it slower when I'm sober I try to I'm trying to rip through it I find that when I'm sober I'm trying to read a book to try to get through it it's odd like I'm just trying to like do it because I'm like I want to get it I'm gonna go I'm gonna go to the next page write all the goddamn high school elementary school conditioning right which is rewarding you go go finish go finish close it go yeah even understanding or anything you're really paying attention yeah I'm kind of absorbing some of it you know I mean it's almost like when I'm sober and I read any anything really not just books but like articles or things online that I'm like trying to like sift through when I'm sober or you know incomplete you know without chemical space it's almost like um a 99-cent store paper towel like I'm getting a good amount of it but there's a lot left behind yes it's a wonderful greeting stone is like wiping up a milk spill with a [ __ ] beach towel you know it's like I'm gonna get all like I'm gonna get I'm gonna get all of it there'll be nothing left behind yeah it's like so much more consumable for some reason when I'm it's beautiful yeah really is man I'm a big I'm a big proponent of that some people like working out stoned we've talked about this but like Ike I like small things hi I like writing a reading high I cannot do physical activity high really I just it's not in my wheelhouse I've talked about it before it's just I'm the please please please please that's why I brought it this is blends this is good this is some of the goods house we having a good time yeah yeah I can't do physical activity hi and I've talked about it before but it's not it's not for me I want to I want to change to something else you took we've talked about this you took somewhat of a small break from stand-up or from comedy you said not a small break I took a huge break from Stan well you but like on the scale of comedy maybe not right like well not you to the community feels big to me it felt big right be nice if it felt big to the community my assessment of most comedians would be like well maybe they know this but I don't know if anybody I think I think comics do I think comics no it's sweet but I also think people assume when you take a break from comedy yeah it's for your own well-being yes you're so like I almost always find the one thing that's I mean the comedy community is incredible people know fans have kind of the people that are listening that kind of listen to a lot of comics they kind of understand that like it's a tough [ __ ] game that's so it's so when someone goes away for a little while the first assumption is they probably need to go away for their own it's not like what the [ __ ] man [ __ ] that [ __ ] no it's never that it's more like the fans assume you just need that time like yeah he or she needs the time whatever the reasoning family personal I think it's so nice to be this connect to the fans in this generation cuz now they understand I think 20 years ago that wasn't as clear that it was what the [ __ ] bro I mean even what 10 15 years ago when Chappelle went away he they called him a crackhead that's right can you believe that like he needed he need a little bit of self-preservation and they called him a crackheads right they said he was smoking crack yeah I mean first of all pretty on the nose races like oh yeah behind the scenes of that was just showed another drug right why crack painkillers why would it be yeah what or Jassi or weed or booze this he actually really does love yeah he loves alcohol he likes smoking weed yeah why crack why'd you jump to crack because I'd like that bothered me but I never made that connection it bothered the [ __ ] out I can right yeah when I hurt I like I remember I can hear like my I can hear some I can hear some like [ __ ] [ __ ] being like watch because please probably a [ __ ] crackhead like you I can just hear idiot saying that and then getting resonated in like uninformed ways that you're like that's just do you not know that that's phony rhetoric that got pushed out that you just bought in like [ __ ] I did no one check in to find out if that was real it's like how [ __ ] up to just be like he's a crackhead anyway when he left and took a trip to Africa by the way just because he wanted to you know they were like why you're like why the [ __ ] not that's right that's such an annoying that why would they go there why wouldn't they dude they have the ability to do so what wouldn't it what a great advantage anyway that's only 15 years ago and they called him a crazy person yeah so when you went away you took some time off you you you took what you say is a big time what was your what was the honest moment that you realized you wanted to take some time off and go away and why oh that's a great question it was so I started realizing it when I was in New York and I realized that I was not I like some of those [ __ ] New York comics more such hard workers they are there's their prolific they're focused they love comedy like they're they're purists you get you run into some purists in New York and I think like what started happening there is I began to realize how much I was taking comedy for granted I realized how lucky I gotten I realized how special the stage was and I realized that because my mind was not connecting with it in a way where I was loving it and that my material was not up to what I wanted it to be in the [ __ ] I was writing I wasn't that interested in and I was writing out of a sense of desperation or fear I just didn't like what I was saying up there all these things started connecting to where I start I just realize like this is not the kind of stand-up I want to be doing the state these audiences deserve people who love what they're [ __ ] doing and goddammit if I'm taking like 11 minutes or 15 minutes or whatever the time is in New York away from a comic who's really in love with the art form at the time so I could get up there and regurgitate jokes that I've been doing forever that was to me it seemed kind of unethical it seemed like really not cool to the audience it seemed disrespectful to the [ __ ] art form stand up it seemed to fly in the face of like a lot of the comics I loved who taught me stuff and so I it wasn't a sudden decision but that was how I was feeling then my dad passed away and that hit me pretty hard but then I had a baby at the same time and then another thing I can't talk about happened it's a great thing that people find out about soon enough yeah so all these things intersected and it was like oh well I've got some excute really good excuses to take a [ __ ] break from doing stand-up and and then I just took a break and I not not to cut you off I mean interested leave were you when you started having this lull in your writing and or performance did you you knew your father was gonna pass away mmm and was that present in the reason that perhaps that's why your comedy was suffering no that wasn't what that was it was a you know a lot of things are sort of converging converging at once and it just was like but all that [ __ ] aside man it was just I wasn't being fun I wasn't funny I wasn't I just you know I don't know how to explain it except it was what I felt like I was being mediocre right and I and I was not putting the time into it that I'm putting into it now and I wasn't my heart wasn't in it and it was just like it was embarrassing and it was not right and so I don't know how to I you I think you're saying it I know I know it's frustrating to try to say but I know what you're saying like I understand I am like I understand what you're saying because it's we all had these lulls and moments and yours was heavy and and it was just so heavy that I'm not gonna say the comedians named not just out of respect but I remember when I first started comedy I was waiting in line for last comic standing outside of the Hollywood improv sleeping on Melrose Avenue outside of Fred Segal and like it was it may be the second season or something I don't remember what it was and then this this comedian she said she had kind of been around for a while at that time like I had known her from she had done stuff before and she was waiting in line behind us and she said you know I took two years off when my brother died because I was so unfunny that it was rude to pretend that I was a stand-up comedian anymore and I was like wow did you think you were gonna quit forever and she was like no but I just knew I just needed to not do comedy right then [ __ ] yeah it was kind of a weird awakening cuz I was just getting to the beginning of my career and back then I was like [ __ ] that [ __ ] dude like what do you mean dude once you quit you're gone because I was young I didn't have I really did feel that way I remember thinking that it could be that way well but in retrospect now that I'm older and a little bit more informed both in life and in comedy it may it makes more s'more more sense than anything I've ever kind of experiencing comedy was like sometimes life happens and you have to figure out what your adjustment levels are for your professional life and your career like there's a balance that people to understand that we also have to be humans and to be comics and I think that when these things are coexisting it's hard to [ __ ] admit that you want to not do something anymore well the thing is it's not hard if you're not a comedian sure right hard if you're a comedian yeah and but to me it's if you can stop doing stand-up then you're probably not a comic right if you hear easy so you can really just stop and you just it's over and you're not gonna do it anymore then that's to me of Victorious realization because it's like you have freed yourself and from an endeavor that was bringing you no joy right and more importantly you've freed the audiences from witnessing of fraud and and and and these are really more importantly you freed up stage time for people who are spending the night in front of [ __ ] clubs because they love it that much right these are all really good decisions to make and I knew in my mind I was like if I stop doing this and I don't want to do it anymore then that's okay right I don't mind fully admitting like oh yeah that wasn't for me I don't know why I was into that [ __ ] but and I was prepared for that but really the reality was a bunch of [ __ ] happened in my life that was incredibly stressful incredibly heartbreaking and that produced a good time to not do stand-up and then now I [ __ ] love it if I don't call into the store mic holy [ __ ] [ __ ] if I have to [ __ ] cancel now which I did too because I was sick I'm like [ __ ] [ __ ] do I just go in there sick as [ __ ] I just want to you know I want to just do it and that's what it used to be like for me and now it's happening now it's that way again thank God and it's wonderful and I'm writing again and I have all new jokes and it's like great but there's no way I could have gotten there by [ __ ] just getting on stage like a zombie like someone's stuck in some horrific loop like some sick literally like somebody wandered out of a senior citizens home or something or just muttering the same 15 not like someone the head injury car he's back yeah yeah you know if you're like I remember like if like something came up where the spot wasn't happening or I would be happy that's not good a bad place to be that's a bad place you're not working in a [ __ ] factory man you're not like this is like this is like the beautiful thing that you get to be a part of by some crazy stroke of luck and so anyway so that I agree with you man I think like in any pursuit yeah that involves creativity and art you need to find well there's a saying in Buddhism that I love not too tight not too loose so it's like if you with comedy if you get poverty mentality not just about money but about the abundance of your imagination to produce jokes right and you start trying to like squeeze jokes out of the [ __ ] of your brain like you're constipated you know what I mean and your dislikes and now you're writing [ __ ] stupid jokes about [ __ ] you saw on Twitter or whatever and stuff that you don't really even find funny yeah that's what happens you'll start writing stuff that you yourself read back and go that's not funny I know that's not funny yeah am I gonna [ __ ] sell them this product and even worse you're not interested yeah not even a little bit like it the very least be interested in the [ __ ] up there that you're talking about right because they can smell it on you yeah isn't it weird when you say a shitty when you are saying shitty worthless jokes you can smell it on you it's like the it's like you radiate the [ __ ] they know yeah as much as as much as people say like as soon as I go or aw do you think audiences are dumb or smart are they getting smarter or dumber I will say this I don't give a [ __ ] how smart or educated the audience is people instinctively feel your [ __ ] they can you could be the best salesman around but this sociopath genius of being able to manipulate someone's emotion when you were telling a joke that you yourself don't find that funny yeah they can [ __ ] tell Megan town they could be the most blank minded empty-headed idiot yeah and they could tell that you don't really think it's that funny oh yeah even if they don't care if the crux of the joke is something they don't even wouldn't even get in a thousand yes they can just tell in there being that it's like this guy doesn't [ __ ] think that's funny he doesn't think he's funny yes it's remarkable that is the determining factor to me over being a stand-up who's really like putting the effort in and someone that's kind of waning through or kind of like sitting in it it's really strange when you're like kind of just sitting in it to be in it for a little bit and do it you can feel it that's why when someone's like the thing quote-unquote like that oh he's got she's got the thing the thing is just being able to buy into your own [ __ ] that's you have to buy your [ __ ] like if I'm not eating it why the [ __ ] am i feeding it to these people what would a weird world you know like that's right why would idea that's [ __ ] up it's like the old the idea of why you cheers a glass you know you would Cheers a glass to have your beer spilling my beer bin case you poisoned me you know that was kind of an old really it's an old adage yeah that because everything was wood so wood would smash hard and break right glass would crack now but you would smash beer to make sure that someone that poured you a drink or a beer wasn't deluded or poisoned or haven't either that's why you look people in the eye too to make sure they're not a liar crazy yeah these are the cheers to make sure people on full-of-shit now this may be an old you know what did that what those called you know like social adage or something or whatever but whether or not that's true that's the same kind of idea if I'm not believing it why the [ __ ] do I think that why would I think you're gonna believe it right hardest part in comedy by the way is to make sure that all of your [ __ ] for me personally I guess I shouldn't speak but I the hardest things to make sure that I really do think that's [ __ ] funny because if I don't think it's funny I promise I can't sell it if I'm if I think it's funny that's sort of [ __ ] on it right I'm a [ __ ] genius salesman if I really like it yeah you know what I mean like sellin Eskimo an icicle you know what I mean like I could do it if I buy it yeah but if I don't nope get ready get ready to watch me know in front of you it's bad right yeah that's right and when you came back when you finally decided you want to what was the what was the spark what was the you know what was the impetus to be like I feel like I need to do this now right well I'd been so I I realized that I well one I I realized I was ready to get back on stage but I was now and I wasn't getting on stage because I didn't want to get on stage it's it's Morse code hello no it's Morse code that I just said everything's okay oh I have a private jet fly over once in a while oh it said any Morse code to find out what's going on in Morse man yeah if they're important to you cost me seven hundred thousand Dokken expensive it was really a ribbon but you know things are okay now that's the relief the relief that washes through you knowing I feel fine you're fine I feel fine I feel fine the impetus was so suddenly I began to realize that my not getting on stage was no longer my lack of inspiration to go on stage but fear right now I was not going on stage because I knew that I would be punished by the gods of comedy and I would have to eat it I would have to eat big [ __ ] buck it's a hot hugging summer warmed up to her yeah yeah and so I knew that I was gonna have to more than likely deal with that level of deep humiliation and because I had not done I had not been working out and I was gonna go to the comedy store and which is a place for like champion level comedians yeah it's it's the it's the pinnacle ring it's like the top yeah yeah yeah and I would have to go there and [ __ ] eat [ __ ] so then I start not then I realized oh cool now I'm just being a coward instead of being a fraud and now it's pretty cool because it's like okay awesome I'm just scared now because I don't want to eat [ __ ] and then luckily I have an amazing very supportive wife he was like just go if she just started telling me every week you just call him she's calling just do it and then I did it thank God and they gave me spots again thank God and then it wasn't it was this up wasn't what you would call comedy special level material because it was all [ __ ] brand new [ __ ] but it was a delight it was one it felt good and it worked and it felt good to be home and hanging out with you we've got to hang out there and hanging out with the comics and the community and being back in the place it's just so vibrant and alive and now my heart feels good again I feel okay again and it's like oh cool I'm a comic I just my dad died I got freaked out and like yeah and that that's the best because it is important you know you can separate comedy as the art form that it is and that's true but it's also the community it's also the totally whole the whole thing the connections standing in the hall with like Whitney Cummings and Jeff Garlin they're helping me punch up a [ __ ] joke just on the fly you know like this is I am in heaven how do I eat this is the best thing at it that is one of those things I mean listen more to Whitney than Jeff but but yes but that was a great joke he's phenomenal but that in itself is what I'm talking about the joke of the jokes that we get to have with one another is so fun to be able to like those things are so what makes that place the thing yeah well I'm happy you're you're I'm happy you're back I think it's I think it's when I the first time I saw you come back and do comedy mmm I don't even know how long ago it was but I was sitting in the room with egit watching you and I was like it's so fun to watch you specifically but the reason that I was enjoying was because the difference in personalities I go up on that stage yeah it's so unique that's from like Joey Diaz to you to Jeselnik to me yeah daliyah to like none of these people have anything really comedic Lee in common other than how funny you know that's it and that that's the great job that Adams doing because that was Mitzi's when I was a town coordinator there man that was like really one of her focuses was how do we make not like not how do we make this the most diverse show not diverse in the way like in race you don't have to be raised it was just diverse and comedy you know she meant like literally like the way comics dress the way they look they're the [ __ ] that she would know the [ __ ] they were going through yeah you know or like you know and she also understood the conflicts comics have there and how fun she thought was funny to take comics so we're fighting and make them bring each other yes if you were to break up a DA Adam does that sometimes it's one of the funniest things I can do well like with Brennan and I had like this weird [ __ ] beef that we've squashed and it's gone we talked about it on the show and all this I had him on the show to talk about it which Brendan Neal Brennan Neil O'Neill bring yeah yeah the fans know I [ __ ] went over at like hardcore but Brennan and I butted heads and we talked about it pretty openly on the podcast over why and why we've since resolved and everything's okay again but Adam would [ __ ] make me bring him bring me up or vice versa that's great yeah it was why and he knew and he would just kind of was like I don't know man those are the good slots you're getting the good times but I knew he knew you don't I mean like he knew but I was also like you could move me one down it's still in the best timeslot that I'm getting I was getting I'm getting phenomenal time Lots you know it's like you can move me one away but he wanted it to sit a little bit and by the way I will tell you it made me a stronger comic yeah it was crazy because vindictively I wanted to perform so hard when I would go up after him like I want to have I wanted a murder you know not not to like blow him out of the water or anything I just wanted to make sure that I still shined as a comedian because of my insecurities of our fights our fight was [ __ ] I was angry at the fact that I lost a friend so I was mad I wanted to crush ya and I [ __ ] would I would go on and I felt on top of the world and it wasn't a [ __ ] you to him at all it was a testament of my own like frustration and ability to use that to fuel whatever I was writing or whatever was going on so I think it was extremely divisive on Adams behalf but but good it wasn't like I never went up there was like [ __ ] Neil or Ryan it's not like we never he always gave me great intros it's not like he used any of that negatively towards me that's the one thing you could [ __ ] hate the next person at the at the store you could literally make that person a bad person who I don't enjoy I'm still gonna bring them on with as much professionalism as I have anyone else yes yes to me that's one of the like you have to do that yep you and I don't like apply many rules to comedy right most don't exist but goddamnit yeah when you bring up the next [ __ ] comic you better make it seem like Jesus Christ has come he's coming back and because it's like you're at this at that point it's not whoever you have beef with or don't have beef or that you don't like their comedy do you like that whatever the [ __ ] it is it's not them it's a comic that's coming onstage in front of an audience to perform in that [ __ ] audience got babysitters and that audience is paying a two-drink minimum people are on a [ __ ] date and they took a risk Brit on a date to a comedy show you don't know what's gonna [ __ ] happen so that audience is like really the sum total of all the energy that went into the you know how it is when you're married a nights are important me I must and then you add a [ __ ] kid to that and so you finally gotten out of the house for a second maybe the first time out of the house since you had the baby yeah that's a big night so you're bringing the next comic up for the in that spirit which is like I know you guys it wasn't easy to get out here here's an amazing [ __ ] comic and then if the comic bombs or whatever it's on them it's on them right but it had nothing to do with your shitty that I hate that man yeah when a comic brings somebody happening this is all just a slightly snarky [ __ ] way and why is there doing a character yeah and let if there if you things are different if you're doing a character different if it's a kid we know one that we know when the difference is yes you know when someone is being defiant just because like you know when someone is you know when someone's just like who who is it and they bring him in like I hope you like this guy he's what this is brought Bob whiner you know be like it's so rude it's it's like saying I don't give a [ __ ] about anybody about myself and you shouldn't even care about these guys other than me you should only care about me I don't give a [ __ ] if I've never met you it's the same as if I hated you if I had blank feelings about you I'm still gonna go oh [ __ ] oh this next comic phenomenal yeah yeah it's not it's not me being dishonest to the audience it's me setting the comic up to achieve what they've worked hard for it's just being like hey I'm giving you the ability to run through now if you fall well that's on you that's on you but I want to pass the baton well you know I mean that's that's how they give you and [ __ ] do you ever run track you're on track yeah like the relays are [ __ ] by the way it's they're impossible relays are so hard to do it's so whenever I like whenever I see it in the Olympics and [ __ ] you're like just running is the challenge how can you outrun other people right that's the challenge when you add a [ __ ] device to it that you have to read that you have to hand to someone and they have to time your speed with their speed and they have to begin running at a certain distance so they can catch - you never thought of that it's it's it is a bananas technique it is a crazy some weirdo was like and what if they had to pass off a thing and you don't just stand there and wait to get it you have to start running and they have to get it within your rhythm of your you got new speed they've got old speed they're dying down on their part you're just beginning so that to me is that that's kind of the metaphor for Matan off to the next comic is like you have to match you know your end of your done with your set but you shall have to just kick it into [ __ ] fifth gear so you can hand this off so they can [ __ ] start off the ramp yeah that's right man yeah yeah that is what you just said is really trippy to me only because like that baton handing thing yeah on a symbolic level is really cool because like that's one of the crazy things about stand-up and it was the way stuff so it's like stand-up comedy is a very pure I like The Comedy Store because it's like the purest form of university there could be but is that you don't apply you don't send in a [ __ ] thing you don't have a GPA they don't care about your credits they do a little bit but like I know cuz I've talked to Admiral people have great [ __ ] credits and he's just like you know let me show you some I remember once I was trying there was someone a friend of mine he's got great credits [ __ ] funny person too but he's like I want to show you something I've got three three spots maybe that can and then like he was like telling me the comics that wanted those spots I mean either people are like sellout Carnegie Hall and [ __ ] yeah you know what I mean it's like but it's not just that he's got he's thank Christ honoring Mitzi's system which is there's also people there who no one's heard of yet yeah they haven't been heard to developed and they have to be so it's like the way you get in there is mysterious it's different for everybody yeah everyone's got a funny story about how it happened yeah and I love that about that place which is just such a pure [ __ ] thing but then the other thing that happens there is really beautiful too because it's like you don't get a professor but you might get like somebody like Rogan or some successful comic sees you and thinks [ __ ] I think that person I think that person's funny yeah and then they just start hanging out with you were talking to you or just whatever and then they start passing the baton and fascinating way and so you see this like and you see the very same thing in like spiritual communities you see the very same thing in all kinds of communities where it's like and I love what you said about having to sync up because it's like if you're a really good mentor you don't expect someone to be where you're at no you sync up with where they're at and then like figure out a way to like pass the baton to them in a way the right time at the right time right that honors them and also respects the fact they might run with that baton in a completely different way right but that's cool man that's a really beautiful that's the [ __ ] baton has the baton and if you can choose to pass the time dude this is uh this has been wonderful yeah man thanks for having me I'm so happy that you came honestly this was like I'm being genuine I don't I haven't said this the reason that I was so excited to have you on is because you're one of these people that I can have fun with and be goofy and then get deep and very real and then go right back into goofy and I feel like that's the rhythm that I enjoy the most and you've got a great comedy brain and a great human regular deep caring brain and these things that come together make me want to have sex with you well do it dude I can't man so plug plug are you going out on the road or anything like yeah yeah yeah say it baby my first set out in the road is gonna be happening it's late January at the Denver comedy work o-tama outside of the Comedy Store best wait a minute I think I'm just before you I'm a Denver Comedy Works this is funny I might what if I'm the week right before you I go to Denver Comedy Works January 16 17 18 are you 23 24 yeah dude you're right you'll be consecutive I'll leave you a gift by the way I always like to leave a gift yeah that's gonna leave a gift for you I I did it for I've done it for a few people Sickler Ryan Sickler I left him some weed in in Arizona I'd like to leave a little bit of gift if I know the comic that's coming next that's we man yeah [ __ ] pick that up I wonder if I wanted to start happening like I I don't know why we don't do that if you know a comic is coming next we should start like giving a little piece of encouragement or fun or III don't know rugs drugs drugs is really what I'm talking about pass down drugs please annex yeah as annex Dan X or or even something simple maybe a little bit cough medicine because you heard they're not feeling that good you know something real simple something really nice a pair of socks ketamine yeah I mean we're really going at the opposite ends of the spectrum but I okay if you could leave some ketamine so you can go to Duncan's website we'll put in descriptions at Duncan Trussell calm yes dr. 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Length: 99min 25sec (5965 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 15 2019

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[u/consideratedealer]

Fucking love Duncan. This is good conversation.